Adam Parvipontanus

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Adam Parvipontanus (* around 1100 in Balsham near Cambridge , † before 1159 ) was an English logician and philosopher.

He was also called Adam of Balsham , Adam du Petit-Pont , Adamus de Parvo Ponte , Adamus Balsamiensis , Adam of the Petit Pont . The name addition Parvipontanus comes from the fact that he studied and taught at the Petit Pont in Paris.

His family had French roots. In Paris he studied with Petrus Lombardus . There he also taught the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics) at the Petit Pont . One of his students was John of Salisbury and he was admired by Alexander Neckam (Nequam, born 1157 and also at the Petit Pont) (after Minio-Paluello a second version of the Ars Disserendi comes from him). In 1145 he became a canon in Paris. He spent around 12 years there before returning to England, where he likely died shortly before 1159.

He has also dealt with the First Analytics of Aristotle by writing a commentary and a partial independent adaptation (Ars Disserendi). In his book on logic from 1132 he mentions and analyzes the paradox "The Liar" , one of its earliest mentions in the Middle Ages. The sources of the paradox in the Middle Ages are not exactly known, but the first Latin treatise on it, Insolubilia Monacensia (anonymous, manuscript in Munich) appeared as early as the end of the 12th century . The next major advance on this issue came from Thomas Bradwardine in the 14th century. In the Ars Disserendi he also recognized the possibility that infinite sets can be real subsets of themselves, which Richard Dedekind (1888) and Georg Cantor and Charles Sanders Peirce (1885) used later in the 19th century to define infinite sets.

His followers, as Parvipontani (or Adamitae), were competitors of the older philosophers and logicians school of Abälard (the Nominales), next to the followers of Parvipontanus those of Gilbert of Poitiers (Porretani or Gilebertini), of Robert of Melun (Melildunenses or Robertini) and Alberic from Paris (Montani or Albricani).

Works

  • Ars disserendi (also Dialectica Alexandri), 1132,
    • newly published by Lorenzo Minio-Paluello : Adam Balsamiensis Parvipontanoi Ars Disserendi (Dialectica Alexandri) , Lorenzo Minio-Paluello (editor) Twelfth century logic: Texts and Studies, Volume 1, Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1956 (and his in the Literature cited article from 1956)
  • De utensilibus (Epistolae), Hoffmann von Fallersleben edition Epistola Adami Balsamiensis ex codice coloniense , 1853
  • De infinito

literature

  • Lorenzo Minio-Paluello The Ars Disserendi of Adam of Balsham Parvipontanus , Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 3, 1954, pp. 116-169
  • Raymond Klibansky, Balsham, Adam of (1100-02? –1157-69?) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004
  • M. Manitius History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages , Volume 3, Munich 1931, pp. 202–204 (about De Utensilibus)
  • Tony Hunt: Teaching and learning latin in thirteenth century England , Boydell & Brewer 1991, p. 165ff (via De Utensilibus)
  • AL Gabriel: English Masters and students in Paris during the twelfth century , in: Garlandia. Studies in the history of the medieval university , Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • K. Jacobi: Logic (ii): The later twelfth century, in P. Dronke History of twelfth century western philosophy, Cambridge University Press 1988, 227-251
  • Y. Iwakuma, Sten Ebbesen : Logico-theological schools from the second half of the twelfth century: a list of sources, Vivarium 30, 1992, 173-210
  • Patrizia Lendinara: The Oratio de utensilibus ad domum regendam pertinentibus by Adam of Balsham, Anglo-Norman Studies, Volume 15, 1993, pp. 161-176

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikko Yrjönsuuri: Treatments of the paradoxes of self reference, in Dov Gabbay, John Woods: Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 2, North Holland 2008, pp. 580ff
  2. ^ Ivo Thomas, A 12th century paradox of the infinite , Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 23, 1958, pp. 133-134
  3. ^ William Kneale, Martha Kneale The Development of Logic , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1962, p. 227. On p. 440 they list further forerunners of Cantor and Dedekind, in which the idea also echoes ( Plutarch (Moralia), Proklos , Galileo Galilei , Bernard Bolzano )
personal data
SURNAME Adam Parvipontanus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam of Balsham; Adam du Petit-Pont; Adamus Balsamiensis; Adam of the Petit Pont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English logician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1100
PLACE OF BIRTH Balsham near Cambridge
DATE OF DEATH before 1159